Quotes About Progress

I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against time of need.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

What if the next chapter was the same as this chapter, as had been the last chapter? What if all chapters stayed the same or even, as time went on, got worse?

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

What the child is and is becoming--that is the question today with the foremost teachers, not how much he knows.

History in the making is a very uncertain thing.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Vivimos atrapados entre el pasado agitado y examinado, y un futuro que espera nuestro trabajo

At least half of what we call hope, I believe, is simply the sense that something can be done. Once,

Look,' he said, 'they are just Germans who had Communism for forty years and went backwards, and all they want now is the money to have big TV sets and holidays in Majorca like everyone else. It was an experiment and it failed.

We'll work through it, you'll

you how to make

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us—but it might open our imaginations.

Over the past few decades many kinds of scholars have shown that allowing only human protagonists into our stories is not just ordinary human bias. It is a cultural agenda tied to dreams of progress through modernization.

following in the footsteps of Marx, twentieth-century students of capitalism internalized progress to see only one powerful current at a time, ignoring the rest.

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

Lot's of things in life aren't right, but most things get better with time.

Somewhere in every one of us, no matter how deep it may be hidden, is a latent germ of beauty. ... We dance because this germ of beauty demands such expression, and the more we give it outlet the more we encourage our own instinct for graceful forms. It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly-thoughts and words no less than tangible objects-and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

Even if he had only enough strength left to take one tiny step toward freedom, no matter how ridiculous and useless the step might be, he was going to take it.

Now Rosie smiled to herself as she gazed around her at the bustle of human traffic around the station, each person with their own story, their own dreams. She had done all right. She'd come a long way. Her mother and father would have been proud.

Ali's phone call to me three years ago changed my life and put me on the road to where I am now. For that I will always be grateful.